ALP Presents~ Chris Boïcos lecture: Marc Chagall Between War and Peace

This Wednesday, June 12, (2013) at 19:30, 

the American Library in Paris presents an art lecture and slide presentation

by Art History teacher Chris Boïcos on the works of Marc Chagall currently on exhibit at 

the Musee du Luxembourg through July 21.

The exhibit itself focuses on four periods of Chagalls' life and work: 

* Russia in wartime, 

* Between the wars,

* Exile in the United States and

 * Post War Years and return to France.  

The photo above is of Chagall's works created between 1968 & 1974 

for Reims Cathedral after his return to France. 

Many of his works in later years depicted scenes from the Bible and these focus on some of the foundations of the old and new testaments. 

If you are in Paris and love Chagall,

stop in for the presentation by a long-time teacher from

 Paris Art Studies.

American Library in Paris  is located at:
10, rue du General Camou
(Just off the Champs de Mars and the Eiffel Tower)
75007 Paris, France
• Tel. +33 (0)1 53 59 12 60
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ 
Tues-Sat: 10h-19h, Sun: 13h-19h.

(Photo copyright: Peter Lucas via Wikipedia) 

'Paris: The Luminous Years'' on PBS tonight

As if to answer the question in my last post, a documentary on Paris and its artists (between the years 1905 and 1930) makes its nationwide premiere tonight at 9pm on PBS. The 2-hour documentary, 'Paris: The Luminous Years- Toward the Making of the Modern' by Perry Miller Adato (who has won awards for her documentaries and includes the likes of  Dyland Thomas, Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe to mention a few) includes archival footage as well as interviews and never-before-seen photos of the artists and writers of the time. It explores the artists and their relationships as well as how these relationships affected their lives and work.

The film includes words from a stellar line-up of modern art celebrities such as Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, Marcel Duchamp, Sylvia Beach, Marc Chagall, Stravinsky and others.

"It's the period from 1905 to 1930 when everybody, almost nearly everyone -- it's just amazing -- who did anything that was important in the arts, in nearly all the arts, was in Paris," explains filmmaker Perry Miller Adato. "Sometimes only for a couple of weeks, sometimes for a couple of months, others for their whole lifetime, but it didn't matter because no matter how short or long it was, it changed their work, and it changed their life."

Tune in tonight for a look at how our favorite city became the inspirational meeting point for the creative minds and souls who inspired each other and then nearly a century of future artists.




(Quote from Monique Marcil's article more of which you can read here.)